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Monday, 8 December 2014

Book Blitz! Hands Off by Candy J. Starr (+ giveaway!)

Hands Off by Candy J. StarrPublication Date: December 5th, 2014Genre: New Adult, Romance

One hundred days without sex? Is that even possible?
When I got offered an exchange to the Italian art school of
my dreams, I nearly cried. I could barely afford college expenses at home let
alone in a foreign country but it’d break my heart to knock them back. Then my
rich and uptight grandmother called with her offer.
If I stopped screwing around, she'd foot the bill. So I
agreed. I figured she didn't really care about my sex life, she just wanted me
to keep my partying off the radar.
I was so wrong.
The sexy but annoying Chad moved into my apartment to keep
me under surveillance. Why wasn't Chad dying to get into my pants like every
other guy I've met? He had secrets and he wanted me to fail.
One hundred days is a helluva long time to avoid temptation
– even longer when Chad becomes the temptation.

EXCERPT

“Ha, I win. You landed on Park Lane and I have a hotel on it. You can't
pay. I win. I win.” I'd have jumped up and done a victory dance if I could use
my foot.

It was infuriating how Chad didn't even get ruffled when I beat him. It
took some of the joy out of it. I wanted him to give more of a sign. Not just a
flare of his nostrils but some real loser angst.

“Wanna play again?”

Chad shook his head.

“What's wrong? Are you scared? Scared I'm going to whupp your ass.”

Chad nodded and shot me a grin.

“I was thinking of heading to the gym. Board games don’t count as real
exercise.”

“It's totally exercise and you can't leave. What if I need something?”

Chad grabbed my crutches from the corner and sat them next to the sofa. “You
can get up and get it yourself. It's just a sprained ankle. It's not like your
legs have dropped off.”

I screwed up my face.

“It's a severe sprain. You were there. You heard the doctor.”

I poked my tongue out at him but he just pointed to the crutches.

“Well, can you get me some supplies to tide me over? I need things in
reaching distance. Like if you made me a coffee in my travel mug, it'd stay
warm until I needed it. And some cookies would go nicely with that.”

Chad sighed but he went into the kitchen to fetch my supplies. He was
good like that. Then I curled up and hugged my pillows. Maybe Chad could
arrange them in a more comfortable position for me before he left.

“Here's your coffee,” he said and sat the mug down in front of me. “And
here's your snack.”

“No way. That's not a snack.” I picked up one of the carrot sticks. “That's
a vegetable. There's no comfort in that.”

“You've not moved off the couch since you hurt your foot. You can't keep
eating snack foods all the time. You'll get too heavy to use your crutches.”

I threw one of my cushions at him. Then regretted it. I needed that
cushion. Damn him.

“Anyway, you are supposed to be here spying on me not going off to the
gym. It's your job.”

Chad picked up the cushion and sat it back on the sofa.

“My job is to make sure you stick to the arrangement with your
grandmother. If you can't get off the couch, you can't break the arrangement,
so I can go out for a few hours. I could probably even take the week off.”

I picked up my phone.

“Hey buddy, I have a whole address book full of numbers here. I just
need to call any one of these guys and they'd be over here in minutes with a
nice big tent in their pants. You don't need a functioning ankle to make sweet,
sweet love.”

“You'd have to get off the couch to have a shower first. You stink.”

He went in his room to get his gym gear and left me sitting there sniffing
my pits. It might've been a while but there are a lot of men in this world who
don't care about personal hygiene if it means getting their dick wet. Chad was
just jealous.

“I totally could you know. You understand nothing about men if you think
a little stink will put them off.”

Ha, that told him. He'd think twice about going to the gym now. Not that
I wanted Chad hanging around with me but you can't play Monopoly by yourself.
And, since I couldn't walk, I couldn't do much more than play Monopoly.

We’d watched all the Harry Potter movies and Star Wars and every season
of Gossip Girl. We’d even watched a bunch of old Kung Fu movies that Chad was
into.

“Don't you have some study to do?”

Chad had his gym bag slung over his shoulder. It made me totally want to
get laid so that I could prove him wrong but then I thought about it. I'd only
be hurting myself if I did. Man, he was trying to psych me out. By saying I
couldn't get laid, he planned for me to want to challenge him. What a cad. He'd
planned this all along. I was way too smart to fall for his tricks though.

I'd stay on the couch forever if that's what it took.

“I can't study. It's not like I just have to read some boring textbook.
I need to be on my feet to create things.”

Candy J. Starr used to
be a band manager until she realised that the band she managed was so lacking
in charisma that they actually sucked the charisma out of any room they played.
“Screw you,” she said, leaving them to wallow in obscurity – totally forgetting
that they owed her big bucks for video equipment hire.

Candy has filmed and
interviewed some big names in the rock business, and a lot of small ones. She’s
seen the dirty little secrets that go on in the back rooms of band venues.
She’s seen the ugly side of rock and the very pretty one.

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